"reluctant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

reluctant adjetivo

reluctant + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 49
reluctant hero • reluctant agreement • reluctant reader • reluctant witness • reluctant smile • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(3) reader, buyer, shopper
Kolokacji: 3
(4) smile, nod, grin
Kolokacji: 3
(7) partner, Congress
Kolokacji: 2
(8) Dragon, star
Kolokacji: 2
(9) step, sigh
Kolokacji: 2
(12) host, celebrity
Kolokacji: 2
(13) Debutante, soldier
Kolokacji: 2
(15) suitor, lover
Kolokacji: 2
1. reluctant suitor = niechętny konkurent reluctant suitor
2. reluctant lover = niechętny kochanek reluctant lover
  • When Christine Dunham, in the fourth movement, looks away in Benjamin Pierce's embrace, she becomes the reluctant lover.
  • Cailin McDonald is excellent as Susanne, the reluctant lover in "Right Sensation," and is clearly a talent to watch.
  • Sometimes she and her mother might be seen, with stern eyes and determined mouths, looking over the letters of the reluctant lover.
  • I spent most of my life doing parlor tricks for reluctant lovers.
  • While von Meck's letters constantly articulated her adoration, Tchaikovsky always remained a more reluctant lover, withdrawing whenever he felt the threat of intimacy.
  • With the finesse of a man courting a reluctant lover, he summoned forth the framework of the wards which locked Anskiere's powers.
  • The bond created by their mutual imprinting in Heretics has made them somewhat reluctant lovers.
  • These speakers are not recognizable types from the poetry hiring hall: moist-souled nostalgists, reluctant lovers or wistful depressives.
  • God, in so many cases, had run a bad second to a reluctant lover or a failed exam.
  • The music changed and the dance became a burlesque, with the fan portraying a reluctant lover and Kichibei an amorous old courtesan.
verbo + reluctant
Kolokacji: 8
feel reluctant • prove reluctant • sound reluctant • grow reluctant • become reluctant • ...
adverbio + reluctant
Kolokacji: 18
initially reluctant • most reluctant • extremely reluctant • increasingly reluctant • somewhat reluctant • ...
reluctant + preposición
Kolokacji: 6
reluctant to • reluctant in • reluctant at • reluctant with • reluctant for • ...

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